Doxycon '99 party report
[short stuff by pol/pht]
Doxycon, the third, was held in Doksy,
Czech Republic 23-25.7. 1999. As one of
the ppl partying there I'll type some
words about it.
About 30 spectrum ppl on Dx99 - that were
Czech, Slovak and Austria scene. Most
known ppl - K3L, NC, 3SC, Tritol, Jan K.,
Phantasy.sk (yes, that was me:), etc. Only
one official program - compo was released
at Saturday evening. Three demos, three
intros, many pics and musics. First place
was unfinished Omega's production and
that's the same destiny as K3L's first
place at Dx98. It means it wasn't released
for distribution. We must wait for the
final version.
Some interesting hw was shown at Dx99.
Jan K.'s 512kB RAMdisk in his Didaktik M
128. Animations from Power Up and Refresh
were played at high speed from this big
memory. Really nice was using of BSROM
(for systems with MB02) in ordinary
spectrum. You can reset your computer and
no datas are broken.
MB02 - that fenomenal disk system with
high speed of disk operations. New
commander is prepared for MB02. It seems
to be the best disk commander ever. LCD
from Austria bings his spectrum+MB02 in
beautifull pC case with external keyboard.
Very nice styled. HDD and spectrum? CDROM
and spectrum? YES! We can saw one part of
Simpsons played by spectrum with full
screen picture (b&w) and fully with sound.
It was played from HDD. CDROM is connected
too but I don't know any working software
for it. Only Tritolsoft's routines. HDD
and CDROM is connected via special
spectrum IDE interface (very small -
5x5cms).
Poke Studio brings his TRDOS system so
non-TRDOS users can see new software for
it. I was suprised with its speed as it's
faster than emulator.
Doxycon '99 wasn't very big party but
very nice and friendly. We can saw new
projects, discusse about spectrum things,
crack some TRDOS loaders [:-)] and got
some beers:)
For ScenergY typed by Pol/Phantasy
